Gulls & Terns in North Lanarkshire
Our list for North Lanarkshire has 7 gulls & terns recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 1 winter visitor and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in North Lanarkshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 7, most common first
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusResidentCommon52–64 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Common GullLarus canusWinter visitorCommon40–46 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRegularly Sep–May
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisPassage migrantCommon43–54 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
Iceland GullLarus glaucoidesPassage migrantCommon52–60 cmRegularly Jan
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made